Daylon Wilkins

April 15, 2022

When building a database, there are many decisions to be made regarding its implementation. Our database is Dolt, which is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. We're modeling our SQL implementation on MySQL, so much so that we're a drop-in repla...

Zach Musgrave

April 14, 2022

A couple weeks ago, somebody at Atlassian had a really bad day. Seems like they didn't realize it at the time, but their customers noticed pretty quickly. Atlassian makes a bunch of software engineering tools that are used by a huge number of softwa...

Alec Stein

April 13, 2022

I'm currently staring at what I think might be the biggest open database of housing sales records ever. It's 50GB of uncut housing sales records straight from the government coffers. Tens of millions of them. Good chance to dig around and play with a...

Jason Fulghum

April 11, 2022

Welcome back to the second post in this blog series exploring the magic that makes Dolt so unique and powerful. Dolt DB is a MySQL-compliant SQL database that also provides the distributed versioning features of Git. The result is a powerful database...

Liu Liu

April 8, 2022

For those new to Dolt and DoltHub, Dolt is Git for data. Git versions files. Dolt versions SQL tables. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt databases. Recently we received a feature request from one of our customers asking us to support ...

Max Hoffman

April 6, 2022

Today we're going to discuss a series of schema bugs discovered in our version-controlled database, Dolt. It manifested in three related ways, from the display layer, into the storage layer, and finally the execution engine. We will unravel the puzzl...

Dustin Brown

April 5, 2022

Today we are excited to announce the release of DoltLab v0.3.1, the product that lets you self-host your own DoltHub! Hopefully you've been following along with our DoltLab announcements and related blog posts, but if this is your first time hearing...

Brian Fitzgerald

April 5, 2022

What Makes Dolt Easy? We think one of the big advantages of Dolt is that it can be downloaded and running on your machine in under a minute. Maybe a little bit longer when you set up your DoltHub login so you can push or pull from DoltHub. This mean...

Andy Arthur

April 1, 2022

Go 1.18 has been released and along with it comes long-awaited support for Generics! Generics are the most significant change to the language in years. They add a new dimension to what is otherwise a minimalist type system. From the very beginning, G...

Vinai Rachakonda

March 30, 2022

Introduction We have been working hard towards making Dolt a production-grade, MySQL compatible database. Last year, we discussed MySQL compatibility in the form of SQLLogictests where we hit 99% correctness. Now, we are very focused on compatibilit...

Tim Sehn

March 28, 2022

Note: We released a Postgres version of Dolt called DoltgreSQL. Dolt is the first version controlled SQL database. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt databases. DoltLab is a self-hosted version of DoltHub. Dolt brings Git-style versi...

Brian Fitzgerald

March 25, 2022

Version Control your Existing Database One of the best use cases to get started using Dolt is to version control your existing database in Dolt. This is additive to your existing environment and won't require changes to your existing infrastructure....

Jason Fulghum

March 25, 2022

Here at DoltHub, we’re building Dolt DB – a new type of distributed, versioned database that gives you all the power and expressivity of a SQL relational database, combined with the ability to time travel through your data to understand exactly when,...

Zach Musgrave

March 23, 2022

The software development world vs. the database admin world Why is the way we make changes to software so different from the way we make changes to databases? It's impossible not to notice. In one world we have source control and a whole constellati...

Tim Sehn

March 21, 2022

Immutable databases come in three flavors: ledgers, blockchains, and version controlled databases. This is a survey of immutable databases, excluding blockchains. Dolt is an immutable SQL database with version control.

Taylor Bantle

March 18, 2022

DoltHub is a web-based UI built in React to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. We recently migrated our monorepo to Yarn 2 (or Yarn Modern). It took us some extra steps to make Yarn 2 work with our monorepo and other infrastructure. ...

Brian Fitzgerald

March 17, 2022

One of the best use cases to get started using Dolt is to version control your existing database in Dolt. This is going to be very additive to your existing environment and won't require changes to your existing infrastructure. Once you have stored 2...

Dustin Brown

March 16, 2022

This year we launched DoltLab the self-hosted version of DoltHub. In February, we released the latest version of DoltLab, version v0.2.0, which included a number of features and bug fixes. We are actively working on DoltLab's next release which is fo...

Vinai Rachakonda

March 13, 2022

Introduction Dolt is on its way to becoming a production grade version-controlled MySQL database. Most developers associate "production grade" software with performance, but to us, it includes user experience (UX). Our current UX challenge is gettin...

Alec Stein

March 11, 2022

About this bounty For our latest bounty we've been pretty ambitious. We asked our community to go out and scrape as many housing sales records as they can find, and after the bounty finished, we topped out at 50 GB of sales data. That is a lot of sa...